Quotes About Suffering

Our Saviour identifies His interest with that of suffering humanity. As

The mysterious providence which permits the righteous to suffer persecution at the hand of the wicked, has been a cause of great perplexity to many who are weak in faith.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18.

Wicked men may torture and kill the body, but they cannot touch the life that is hid with Christ in God. They can incarcerate men and women in prison walls, but they cannot bind the spirit.

The worst part of war is that so many people enjoy it.

Misery has made more revolutions than either philanthropy or economics.

Jesus did not receive baptism as a confession of guilt on His own account. He identified Himself with sinners, taking the steps that we are to take, and doing the work that we must do. His life of suffering and patient endurance after His baptism was also an example to us.

I think some people call this love. I call it hell.

A marriage made in heaven—or in my case, hell.

Bit me, Alexander. i cried bit me

i was in love with the sound of the slamming door, it sounded the way i felt, like damn you to hell! and i hate what you're doing to me! and Life sucks.

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

About 10 percent of the time, after [a] patient has recovered … pain persists. It persists for months and oftentimes for years, and when that happens, it is its own disease.

They say that God makes problems Just to see what you can stand Before you do as the devil pleases Give up the thing you love

Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why.

Pain is the road to both birth and death.

Sick unto death, I think they call it

It was awful, this love.

Until, one day, she'd just . . . stopped. Not because the pain of losing him and the dream she'd carried for them had died, but because she'd learned that it was all right to live with pain and to use it. And in that, she'd found peace.

I saw one in pain, in pain enough for ten strong women but she didn't say a word about that pain, she went deep under the water and came back and she wasn't alone

In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.

No vivir es no sufrir y no saber

God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through the furnace of affliction.

When we fail to believe the truth about who Jesus is and miss the impact of His astounding work in suffering and dying for our sin, it will be impossible to resist the allurement of the gods of this earth as they whisper their promised pleasures to us.